A Futures Thinking Program designed for your business
The application of futures thinking tools can help you find business today and stay in business tomorrow.
The Future and the present are linked
The newspaper headlines would have us believe that the world has never been in so much of a mess. But the perspective that futures thinking gives us, is that this is simply not true.
Every generation has its challenges, but while we are overwhelmed by the current circumstances we have neither the energy to deal with today nor the capacity to create tomorrow.
Futures thinking models allow us to get a perspective of our business environment that provides us with
- New opportunities for markets and clients
- New ways to sell our products or market out value
- New ways to define our culture and attract more loyal customers
- New revenue opportunities
At the same time, future thinking will help us avoid disasters, identify avenues that may become dead-ends commercially, and ways to dodge values changes that could cancel your company’s reputatio.
Let’s talk about the cost.
What happens when your models no longer work?
- Innovation and creativity dries up
- Your brand becomes synonymous with 'old fashioned' and 'out of touch'
- Your ability to sell at a premium is eroded as buyers have more innovative options
- Sales decline and restricted cash flow means you cannot catch up again
- Employee Performance suffers
- Reputation erodes
- Customer Service suffers
- Communication erodes
- ESG and DEI projects become redundant
- Sales go down and profit plummets
- Project management becomes difficult
- Staff turnover increase and talent becomes scarce
- Work Life Balance is erased
What this means is that all of your good plans for the future of your company become redundant when they aren’t rooted in a futures thinking model.
What is this program good for?
Futures thinking (or Strategic Foresight) is a professional development skill that all leaders should strive to develop if they want their own careers, and their organisations, to be sustainable. It is the new essential organisational skill.
This program is designed to introduce this conversation to your leaders and decision makers, to foster an appreciation for futures thinking and to salt your conversations with new ways to think about current projects and future sustainability.
- Improves employee engagment so that employees are aligned with the company objectives
- It improves decision making and goal setting allowing company objectives to be achieved
- It improves creativity and innovative thinking about business models, products, marketing and more
- It improves flexible thinking so that employees can adapt to changing circumstances in the workplace and your sector
- It helps with change management programs so that there is less resistance to necessary organisational change
- It helps your company be more sustainable, more resiliant and more competive!
What are the program options?
This program can be presented in a short session for inspirational purposes or a longer session for learning purposes.
They are designed for teams (with a preferable limit of 20) and will be focussed on your company’s industry sector.
Futures Thinking for Business Success Webinar
The team will learn about the models and have the opportunity to discuss them.-
1.5 hour session
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Interactive Presentation
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E-workbook and guide to fostering conversations
Futures Thinking for Business Success Webinar
The team will learn about the models and have the opportunity to discuss them.-
3.5 hour session
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Interactive Presentation
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E-workbook and guide to fostering conversations
Futures Thinking for Business Success Workshop
The team will learn, discuss and practice the models as appropraite to your industry.-
Full day - 6 hour workshop
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Interactive session with breakouts
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E-workbook and printable models and discussion guides
All sessions above are for virtual presentations on the platform of your choice. In person sessions will be quoted separately. Bespoke workshops can be arranged.
All sessions also come with
* the relevant e-workbook
* as well as a short post-course video series to reinforce the learnings
* and an ebook copy of ‘Futures Alchemist’
These prices are relevant until end November 2022.
Meet your Futures Facilitator, Charlotte Kemp
Charlotte Kemp is a professional, international futurist keynote speaker and workshop leader.
She holds leadership positions in the local speakers association (PSASA), is the President-Elect of the Global Speakers Federation (GSF) and is a professional member of the Association of Professional Futurists (APF).
These roles mean that she has global experience and perspective and good insight into the range of change management topics dealt with by her speaker and futurist colleagues.
For you, that means that she can source and bring the latest and most relevant learning to your teams.
Hear from previous delegates and clients
Let us discuss the content
We know that we cannot change someone’s mindset in a single workshop, but we can introduce new ideas to challenge limiting thinking.
The following models will be covered so that, by the end of the session delegates would be able to initiate their own futures plan for their department, immediately.
- The Futures Cone – A valuable way to look at the future and understand the variables
- The 4 Stages of Futures Thinking
- Horizon Scanning – What is coming next
- Trend Spotting – How to identify trends and more importantly, Counter Trends
- Scenario planning – The most powerful way to prepare for any future
- Road Mapping – How to test your new strategies
- The 3 Lenses of Futures Thinking – Useful so that you don’t create irrelevant plans
- The 3 Levels of Futures Thinking – Mindset, Toolset, Skillset